Wagon-axle truss



UNITED STATES PATENT OEE cE.

FREDERICK ULRICH, E PERU, INDIANA.

WAGON-AXLE TRUSS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,676, dated February2*, 1885.

App ication filed Dt cembe1z27, 1984.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I. FREDERICK ULEIoH, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city oflPeru, in the county of Miami and State ofIndiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in aWVagon-Axle Truss; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the same,

a reference being bad to the annexed drawings,

making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a front elevation of abolster and axleembodying my invention; Fig. 2, an under sideplan view,on an enlargedscale, of the axle, showing the manner of atinching the truss-rodsthereto; and Fig. 3, a t nilar view of a modification of my invention.

The-present invention has relation to the manner of connecting the endsof truss-rods to the axles of vehicles, and is designed as animprovement on my former patent, No. 278,755, dated June 5, 1883; andthe invention consists in bringing the ends or extremities of thetruss-rods around lugs-depending from the under side of the axle, theends of the rods being bent in opposite directions around each lug andsecured by clampingplates, substantially as shown in the drawings, andhereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the axle, and B the bolster,said axle being provided with the usual thimble-skeins,0.

Upon the under side of the axle A, and near each end thereof, aredepending lugs 11 c,

(No model.)

the outeixlugs, b, forming guides for the ends of the truss-rods D,which are bent around the lugs c, the extremities of the rods locatedbetween the lugs c abutting or bearing against each other, as shown, andare held in place between the lugs by the usual clamping-plates, d, andclips 0.

In Fig. 3 l have shown a modification of my invention, the extremitiesof the trussrods being bent in opposite directions to those shown inFig. 2.

In the present instance I have preferred the use of two independent rodsextending the entire length of the axle; but a single rod may be used,halved or split at its extremities and bent around the lugs in themanner above described; and, if preferred, the outer lugs, b, may bedispensed with, and the extremities of the truss-rods simply bent aroundthe lugs c.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-

A truss for axles,consisting of a rod or rods passing between lugsdepending from the under side of the axle andafterward bent around thesame, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK ULRICH.

